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NASA Astrophysics Data System

NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides a powerful search engine for each of its four bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics Instrumentation Physics and Geophysics ArXiv Preprints

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National Academies Press (NAP)

4000+ free ebooks on science, engineering, and health.

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

The NBER is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that publishes economic research by academic researchers.Use for: finding the full text of NBER working papers on economic research from 1994 - present.

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National Criminal Justice Reference Service

National Criminal Justice Reference Service, founded in 1972, is a U.S. Federal information clearinghouse on criminal justice, juvenile justice, and drug policy.

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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database

Summaries of over 210,000 U.S. and international publications about criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse.

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National Household Survey 2011 (at Abacus)

Data from the 2011 voluntary equivalent of the Census long form data. Data at very fine geographic detail (Dissemination Areas)

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National Household Survey 2011 (at Statistics Canada)

Publicly available data from the 2011 voluntary equivalent of the Census long form data. Profiles and topic based tabulations from large areas (ie, Canada, Provinces) to mid-size regions (Census Tracts, neighbourhoods)

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National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals

User limit: 5 maximum

A group of databases giving access to articles published in Chinese periodicals from 1833 to current, compiled by the Shanghai Library, and Shanghai Tuqing Information Co., Ltd.

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National Theatre Collections 1 and 2

Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, the National Theatre Collections 1 and 2 offer a total of 50 filmed performances.

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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress)

The NUCMC program was created to provide and promote bibliographic access to the United State's documentary heritage.

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Native American Archives

USA. Original historical documents (18th - 20th century): treaties, ratified treaties, related correspondence, chronological list of treaties. Indexes place, tribe. Photos from 1898 Indian Congress by Frank A. Rinehart.

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Native Health Database

Indexes journal articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.

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NatMed Pro

Evidence-based, peer-reviewed syntheses of data on complementary and alternative therapies. Includes information on supplements, diets, exercise techniques, and more.

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Naver News Library

Full text coverage of 3 Korean historical newspapers (Tonga Ilbo, Kyonghyang Sinmun, and Maeil Kyongje Sinmun) from 1920 - 1999.

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Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. UBC faculty looking to create a playlist to share with students, please contact Kevin Madill, UBC Music Librarian - kevin.madill@ubc.ca

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Naxos Music Library - Jazz (NMLJ)

User limit: 3 maximum

Naxos Music Library - Jazz (NMLJ) offers a selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz.

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Alumni Access? Yes
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Naxos Music Library World

User limit: 5 maximum

A streaming music database that includes the complete Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as well as holdings from Sony, Arc and Naxos World; representing over 1,500 cultural groups and 150 countries.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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Naxos Spoken Word Library

User limit: 10 maximum

Naxos provides online streaming access to over 400 audio books, comprising over 1,100 works and stories. Categories range from classic fiction to Shakespeare to selected children's works.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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New Naratif

New Naratif's vision is to foster an inclusive Southeast Asia community where all peoples are fully engaging and participating in building democracy. Founded in 2017

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Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
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New Oxford Shakespeare

Interactive resource presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.

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Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? Ask
Alumni Access? No
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New York Times (archive)

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT - It may be known as “America’s newspaper” but for more than a century, The New York Times has commanded international readership. Coverage: 1851 - 2017

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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News on the Web (NOW)

First-time users must register for an account to benefit from UBC's academic license. Use this link to create a new account affiliated with UBC.

UBC faculty and graduate students may also request access to a downloadable version of NOW.

The News on the Web (NOW) corpus contains billions of words of data from online magazines and newspapers in 20 English-speaking countries from 2010 to the present.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Nexis Uni

One of the world's premier fulltext news, government, legal, finance and business information services. Research international news, corporate and legal materials.

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Linking? Yes
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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Nexis Uni - Legal

Provides access to primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations and secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.

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Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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NFB Education (National Film Board)

NFB Campus has now become NFB Education. More information here - https://help.nfb.ca/knowledge-base/nfb-campus-is-becoming-nfb-education/

Provides access to online viewing of films produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? Yes
Alumni Access? No
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NHS Economic Evaluation Database

User limit: 50 maximum

Identifies and describes economic evaluations, appraising quality and highlighting strengths and weaknesses. Produced by UK National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) 1995 - March 2015.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Nielsen Datasets

These Nielsen datasets are available only to UBC tenured and tenure-track faculty, UBC PhD students and UBC postdoctoral researchers. The data is only for research purposes (eg. excludes use for teaching).

Access Instructions for Eligible Users:

1. Please read all Project Criteria, Use Requirements, and Papers & Publication Policies

2. To request for your personal unique code, please complete the online code request form through this link

3. After the administrator approves your request for a code, you will receive an email with your registration code and instructions to complete the process. The Kilts Center will review your project(s) and send you a final activation email along with steps for how to access the data.

Kimberly Fama is UBC's Nielsen administrator, and will approve code requests within two business days. If you have not received an update within two business days, Kimberly may be out of the office. In this case, please send an email to the David Lam Library and a library staff will get back to you within a reasonable timeframe.

Please be advised that the personal information you disclose to Nielsen once your account is approved may be stored on servers located outside of Canada.

The Nielsen Datasets at the Kilts Center for Marketing provides comprehensive marketing datasets to provide academic researchers new opportunities to explore the dynamics of purchasing behavior across the United States.

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Linking? No
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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets

Contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries.

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Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? No
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE.

Fully-searchable primary documents arranged in subject-specific archives. Encompasses a variety of disciplines from History to Literature to Women's studies to Science

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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Nineteenth Century Index [C19]

This database provides integrated access to the twelve most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives for 19th century studies.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Nixon Years, 1969-1974

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from The National Archives, Kew, relating to the Nixon administration, 1969-1974.

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Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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NK PRO

NK PRO is a one-stop resource for news, data, and analysis on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Related: NK News, KCNA Watch.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Ask
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nkoda - Digital Sheet Music Library

nkoda is a digital sheet music subscription service that can be accessed via app on your phone, tablet or desktop.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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NoorMags

Provides articles in Persian (Farsi), Arabic and English on humanities and social science topics, with a focus on Islamic Studies.

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North American City Reports

Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
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Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

A unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada concentrating on the period from 1890 to 1920.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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North American Indian Drama

Full text scripts of over 250 plays by American and Canadian Indigenous playwrights, with brief information about authors, characters, theatrical companies, productions and cast. Searchable by scene.

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Alumni Access? No
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North American Indian Thought and Culture

American and Canadian primary source materials. Mainly textual materials from American libraries (books, articles, pamphlets, oral histories). Indexed for place, event and individuals. Also audio, video, images.

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Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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North American Women's Drama

The collection covers contemporary drama, including the works of performance artists.

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Alumni Access? Yes
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, colonial to 1950.

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Alumni Access? Yes
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North China Herald

The English-language North China Herald is the prime printed source in any language for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to 1940s.

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Research or Private Study? Yes
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Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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Novelist

NoveList Plus a database of reading recommendations, presenting fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

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Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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